Portable savings-bank.



G. FISHER.

PORTABLE SAVINGS BANK. K

Patented Dec. 5, 1911.

APPLIGATION FILED OCT. 22, 1906.

IIIII H garded as the top of the bank as it is shown.

UNITED STATES PATENT oEEICE.

' CHARLES FISHER, or OAK PARK, ILLINoIs, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, 'ro

THE AUTOMATIC RECORDING sAEE COMPANY, or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CoRroRA- TION OF ILLINOIS.

Specification'of Letters Patent.

PORTABLE SAVINGS-BANK.

Patented Dec. 5, 1911.

Application filed October 22, 1906. Serial No. 339,913.

simple and durable construction into which money can be readily introduced but from which it cannot be removed without a key or without unlocking and opening the receptacle, and generally to improve the construction and operation of devices of this character.

It consists in certain novel features of construction and in the peculiar arrangement and combination of parts as hereinafter particularly described and defined in the claims.

In the accompanying drawing like characters designate the same parts in the several figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of a bank embodying the present invention, a portion of the cover .or removable closure being broken away; Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the bank on the lines 2 2, Figs. 1 and 3; Fig.3 is an inverted plan or inside view of the cover or closure removed from the body or coin receptacle, and Fig. I is a vertical section of the bank on the line 4: 4:, Fig. 3, in a plane at right angles to the section of Fig. 2.

Although the bank is intended to stand in an inverted position upon its cover or re movable closure, as shown in Fig. 4:, in the following description the cover will be rein Fig. 2 in position for receiving coins.

Banks of the class to which this invention relates are designed to be supplied by banking houses to small depositors to induce them to start and keep savings accounts and thusencourage and form the habit of saving, keys for opening the banks being usually kept in the custody of the depositaries with whom accounts are kept.

The bank is composed of two main parts, a body or coin receptacle a, and a cover or removable closure 12. The body a; is preferably drawn or stamped in cylindrical form from sheet metal. On the open side or end it is formed with an inturned marginal flange c. The cover I), which may be conveniently made of cast metal, is preferably of circular shape and is formed on the under or inner side with a circular flange d which fits loosely inside of the flange 0 on the body, the rim 6 of the cover overlapping the flange c. On one side the cover is formed with a lug f adapted to project underneath and engage with the flange 0, and on the opposite side it is provided with a lock or fastening for detachably securing it to said flange. This lock or fastening may consist, as shown in Figs/2 and 3, of a bolt 9 fitted in a socket, in the cover, and adapted to be retracted against the tension of a spring h by a .keyinserted in and turned with a slotted barrel or guide 71 which is fitted in a socket in the cover at one side of and transverse to the bolt socket. The bolt is retained in the socket and its endwise movement therein is limited by a screw 7', the point of which projects into a notch or recess in one side of the bolt, as shown in Fig. 2. On its upper or outer side the cover is formed with avdepressed inclined coin guide 70 leading to the lower side of a slot Z. A second guidem' attached to the inner or under side fthe cover, inclined in a reverse direction and extending, when the bank is closed, from one side of the body a, back underneath the guide 70, forms a reversed conduit for coins inserted through the slot Z, a space or opening between the lower end of the guide m and the overhanging lower end of'the guide lc being left for the passage of the coins from said conduit into the bank.

-Adjacent to its lower edge the guide we is formed with a transverse series of pockets 4. in each of which is loosely confined a ball or gravity stop 0 of sufficient size to close or obstruct the space or opening between said guides without escaping through it when the bank is inverted, as shown in Fig. 4, or is tilted or shaken so as to cause the balls or stops to fall or to be thrown by their momentum across or into said space or opening.

The guide k is preferably formed on the under side opposite the pockets a with a transverse channel or recess 79.

To provide for the insertion of bills or paper money into the bank and to prevent their withdrawal therefrom without unlocking and removing the cover, an opening 9 is made through the cover and this opening is surrounded on the inner or under side by a flange 1 which terminates in a sharp edge, as shown in Fig. 4.

To introduce coins or paper money the bank is held in the position in which it is shown in Fig. 2, and the coins placed fiatwise on the guide 70 are thrust through the slotlupon the guidemfrom which they are shaken or slid by tilting the bank into the body or receptacle a through the space or opening between the two guides. When they are once within the receptacle a they cannot be withdrawn therefrom without unlocking and removing the cover 6. Any attempt to remove them through the opening between the two guides by inverting, tilting or shaking the bank will be defeated by the balls or gravity stops 0 rolling or being thrown into or across said opening, and thus preventing the outward passage of the coins through it.

To introduce paper money into the bank the bill is rolled or folded into a sufficiently compact form to pass through the opening q, and when it is completely within the receptacle a it will unroll or unfold sufliciently to prevent its withdrawal through said opening around or over the sharp inwardly projecting flange r.

I claim.

1. A portable savings bank, comprising a coin receptacle, an external inclined supporting guide at the lower end of which there is a slot, an internal guide inclining in the opposite direction to. the external guide and terminating below the external guide in a slotopening into the coin receptacle and located to one side of the slot at the terminus of the external guide, and a loose gravitating stop located between the external and internal guides adjacent to the terminus of the internal guide, substantially as described.

2. A portable savings bank comprising a coin receptacle, a member formed with a slot for insertion of a coin and having a ing stop seated in said pocket and adapted to be projected into the recess in the oppositely disposed member, substantially as described. v

3. A portable savings bank comprising a coin receptacle, a member formed with a slot for insertion of a coin, an internal inclined supporting-guide extending across the aforementioned slot and terminating in a slot opening into the coin receptacle beneath said member, said guide being formed with a series of pockets arranged side by side transversely across the guide adjacent to its end and beneath the oppositely disposed member, and balls loosely confined in the pockets and adapted to be projected toward the oppositely disposed member, substantially as described.

i. A portable savings bank comprising a coin receptacle, a member formed with a slot for insertion of a coin and having a transversely extending channel in its under side, an internal inclined supporting-guide extending across the aforementioned slot and terminating in a slot opening into the coin receptacle beneath said member, said guide being formed with a series of pockets arran ed across the rude ad'acent to its end D t! I and opposite to the channel in the oppositely disposed member, and a ball fitting loosely in each pocket and adapted to be projected into the channel in the oppositely disposed member, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I hereto aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES FISHER. WVitnesses:

CHAS. L. Gross, ALICE E. Goss.

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